FEATURES
the wolf of wall street
By Jonathan Romney
Laughing all the way to the bank: Scorsese tackles a criminal enterprise of a different order and Leo gets to play Pied Piper
The Invisible woman
By Amy Taubin
Ralph Fiennes’s film brings to light the repressed history of the actress who became Charles Dickens’s mistress. Plus: Graham Fuller on the double binds of Victorian values
bruce dern
By Beverly Walker
A cherished character actor explains how he got from there to here and what he did in Nebraska
FINAL CUT 2013
50 Best Films of the Year Poll • 20 Best Undistributed Films of the Year Poll • Our Top 10s • State of the Art • The Year in Animation • Blue Jasmine • “Difficult” Films
the hunger games
By Howard Hampton
To have and have not: Hollywood’s take on the rich and the rest
THE coen brothers & Scott rudin
By Harlan Jacobson
A conversation with the makers of Film Comment’s movie of the year, Inside Llewyn Davis
ALAIN GUIRAUDIE
By Jonathan Romney
The many faces of erotic fantasy in the Stranger by the Lake director’s singular cinematic universe
DEPARTMENTS
Editor’s Letter
Opening Shots
News, Hot Property: Axelle Ropert’s Miss and the Doctors by Nicolas Rapold, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die: Let’s Go with Pancho Villa, Site Specifics: Seed&Spark by Violet Lucca, Trivial Top 20: Best Road Movies, Restoration Row
ENCORE
Orson Welles’s Too Much Johnson by Geoffrey O’Brien
fade out
Stanley Kauffmann by Phillip Lopate
SOUND & VISION
Visitors by Chris Chang and David Cronenberg by Amy Taubin
A FACE IN THE CROWD
Helena Kallianiotes by Chuck Stephens
critics’ choice
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
OLAF’S WORLD
John Guillermin by Olaf Möller
screenings
August: Osage County by Andrew Chan, Labor Day by David Fear, A Field in England by Graham Fuller
SHORT TAKES
Bethlehem by Chris Chang, Big Bad Wolves by Chris Chang, Child’s Pose by Eric Hynes, The German Doctor by Sarah Mankoff, Gloria by Nicolas Rapold, Like Father, Like Son by Nicolas Rapold
HOME MOVIES
Alain Robbe-Grillet by Giovanni Vimercati, The Berlin File by Sarah Mankoff, The Big Gundown by Chuck Stephens, Black Roots by Max Nelson, Far from Vietnam by Patrick Friel, Milius by Frank Ombres, A River Called Titas by Jordan Osterer, Illumination by Dan Sullivan, Riddles of the Sphinx by David Gregory Lawson, Monsters University by David Filipi
readings
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris, reviewed by Kent Jones; The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School by Marco Abel, reviewed by R. Emmet Sweeney; The Fat Lady Sings by Robert Evans, reviewed by Kevin Canfield; Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture by Rebecca Prime, reviewed by Noah Isenberg
graphic detail
The Best Posters of 2013 by Adrian Curry
